Turner to Cézanne
Subtitle: masterpieces from the Davies collection, National Museum Wales
By: by Oliver Fairclough and Bryony Dawkes ; essays by Colin Bailey, Paul Greenhalgh, and Oliver Fairclough ; catalogue entries by Bryony Dawkes and Bethany McIntyre.
Contributors: Dawkes, Bryony.; Bailey, Colin.; Greenhalgh, Paul.; Columbia Museum of Art.
Publisher: American Federation of Arts in association with Hudson Hills Press, Manchester, Vt.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781885444370; 9781555952990
Subjects: Davies, Gwendoline Elizabeth, -- ca. 1882-1951 -- Art collections -- Exhibitions; Davies, Margaret Sidney, -- 1884-1963 -- Art collections -- Exhibitions; National Museum Wales -- Exhibitions; Painting, European -- 19th century -- Exhibitions; Painting, European -- 20th century -- Exhibitions; Painting -- Private collections -- Wales -- Cardiff -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: "Published to accompany a traveling exhibition organized by the American Federation of ARts and National Museum Wales, this book features forty-seven stunningly beautiful paintings - many of which are rarely displayed outside of Wales - and eleven important works on paper. Together, they visually track the progression of modern art in Europe - from its beginnings in the romantic naturalism of Turner through Post-Impressionism."-inside jacket.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Columbia Museum of Art, S.C. and four other institutions between Mar. 6, 2009 and Aug. 8, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Directors' acknowledgments; title: "The great joy of collecting" : modern French art in the Davies collection / by Oliver Fairclough; title: Recognizing the modern world : art, patronage, optimism / by Paul Greenhalgh; title: "Looking closely at Renoir's La Parisienne" / by Colin Bailey; title: Catalogue; title: Bibliography; title: Index.